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A Time to Laugh (Library of Wales)
Rhys Davies
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Description for A Time to Laugh (Library of Wales)
Paperback. The second novel in the Rhondda Trilogy - 'the most sustained literary examination of Welsh industrial history ever published and certainly the least ideologically distorted' - A Time to Laugh (1937) is set in a coal-mining valley on the eve of the 20th century, against a background of industrial unrest and social change. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 350.
'Tumult and disorder, frustration, wages, strikes, riots, debts - were these to be his world? Ugliness, squalor and meanness was their portion. And yet, and yet ...They had the full tarnished brilliance of life in them. And he began to laugh, with a soft low sound, half caught in his throat.' The second novel in the Rhondda Trilogy - 'the most sustained literary examination of Welsh industrial history ever published and certainly the least ideologically distorted' - A Time to Laugh (1937) is set in a coal-mining valley on the eve of ... Read more
'Tumult and disorder, frustration, wages, strikes, riots, debts - were these to be his world? Ugliness, squalor and meanness was their portion. And yet, and yet ...They had the full tarnished brilliance of life in them. And he began to laugh, with a soft low sound, half caught in his throat.' The second novel in the Rhondda Trilogy - 'the most sustained literary examination of Welsh industrial history ever published and certainly the least ideologically distorted' - A Time to Laugh (1937) is set in a coal-mining valley on the eve of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Parthian Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Library of Wales
Condition
New
Weight
350g
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910409114
SKU
V9781910409114
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99-50
About Rhys Davies
Rhys Davies was born in 1901 in Blaenclydach in the Rhondda Valley. Leaving school at the age of 14, he managed to live by his pen for fifty years. He was among the most dedicated, prolific and accomplished of Welsh prose authors, writing over a hundred short stories, eighteen novels, including The Withered Root (1927) and The Black Venus ... Read more
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